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Type
Alignment	ergative-absolutive
Head direction	primarily head initial
Tonal	No
Declensions	Yes
Conjugations	Yes
Genders	animate/inanimate
Nouns decline according to...
Case	Number
Definiteness	Gender
Verbs conjugate according to...
Voice	Mood
Person	Number
Tense	Aspect
Meta-information
Statistics Nouns % Verbs % Adjectives % Syntax 0% Words of 1500
Creator	[[User:|]]

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar
Nasal	n
Plosive	p b			t d				k g
Fricative		f	θ	ts/s	tʃ/ʃ	ʂ		x
Affricate
Approximant	ʍ			r			j
Trill	ʙ
Lateral app.				l/ɫ
Click			ǀ		ǃ		ǂ

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
High	i				u
Mid	e		ə ɚ		o
Low			a

Phonotactics

(C)V(V)(F)(C) (maximal complexity for syllable: /ʂɚafp/)

any coda n before another consonant assimilates place of articulation with said consonant.

fricatives follow voicing harmony with any plosive in the same syllable that came before it, but default to voiceless, meaning that if you have a word of "paf", the f is voiceless, but if you have the word "baf", the f is voiced

s and ʃ become affricates if they are the onset of the first syllable of a word.

stress always goes on the second syllable if a word has more than two, and on the first if a word has only two syllables.

Writing System

Letter	a	e	i	u	o	y	p	b	t	k	n	r
Sound	a	e	i	u	o	ə	p	b	t	k	n	r
Letter	s	f	v	m	h	w	j	x	c	l	p'	t'
Sound	ts/s	f	θ	ʙ	x	ʍ	j	ʂ	tʃ/ʃ	l	ǀ	ǃ
Letter	k'	ŕ	g	d
Sound	ǂ	ɚ	g	d

Grammar

Nouns

all nouns begin with a vowel. depending on if a noun word animate or not will end with <os> or <es>, respectively. for plurality, the noun word is simply said twice.

Verbs

all verbs begin with either <na>, <me>, <fu>, <si>, or <ho>. the structure it begins with is decided by mood, with them being indicative, imperative, interrogative, subjunctive, and conditional, respectively. for the "to be" form of a verb, the prefix is conjugated as <xyd>

the suffix is decided by tense. For distance past, such as roman times or 6 months ago, <jun>. For recent past, such as last month, yesterday, or last night, <p'un>. For general present, such as some time today, <xyn>. For specific present, such as whatever time the sentence is being said, <t'yn>. For near future, such as tomorrow, tonight, or next week, <win>. For distant future, such as next year, <k'in>. for the "to be" form of a verb, the suffix is conjugated as <vam>

for copula and other linking verbs, there is no root to the verb, and instead it is made up entirely of its conjugations

adjectives

all adjectives must begin with a plosive. there are no rules to define what plosive they begin with. all adjectives must end in a sonorant. there are no rules to define what sonorant they end with.

to make an adjective into an adjective modifier, either the suffix <bŕx>, <dŕx>, or <gŕx> will be used, depending on the place of articulation of the sonorant before it. if the place of articulation is bilabial or labiodental, <bŕx> is used. if the place of articulation is anything from dental to palatal, <dŕx> is used. if the place of articulation is retroflex or beyond, <gŕx> is used ŕa

Syntax

default of OSV sentence structure. adjectives go after nouns, words modifying verbs go after the verb, words modifying an adjective go before the adjective. if there is an object of the sentence, then before the subject the word "vŕa" is used between them.

Example text

I am living = nŕ nasoxyn

you ate = mu nagep'un

I will a fruit = ecibu nŕ nagewin

will they be here? = dan idios fuwin?

they left = dan nymilusyp'un